http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/06/26/microsoft-rumored-to-buy-semantic-search-startup-powerset/ EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:39:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/06/26/microsoft-rumored-to-buy-semantic-search-startup-powerset/comment-page-1/#comment-28893 Yellow SEO Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:11:07 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1540#comment-28893 thumbs up for Semantic search ... wonder if there ever going to roll this out it now that they actually bought them in july or 2008, seems to have a great concept where sentence structure, syntax, dictionaries, and thesauri to extract meaning from text, rather than relying on how heavily web pages are linked to one another to determine the relevance of search results. thumbs up for Semantic search … wonder if there ever going to roll this out it now that they actually bought them in july or 2008, seems to have a great concept where sentence structure, syntax, dictionaries, and thesauri to extract meaning from text, rather than relying on how heavily web pages are linked to one another to determine the relevance of search results.

]]> http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/06/26/microsoft-rumored-to-buy-semantic-search-startup-powerset/comment-page-1/#comment-23861 nature Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:16:11 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1540#comment-23861 By buying Powerset, Microsoft is hoping to close the perceived quality gap with Google’s search engine. The move comes as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer continues to argue that improving search is Microsoft’s most important task. Microsoft’s market share in search has steadily declined, dropping further and further behind first-place Google and second place Yahoo. Great By buying Powerset, Microsoft is hoping to close the perceived quality gap with Google’s search engine. The move comes as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer continues to argue that improving search is Microsoft’s most important task. Microsoft’s market share in search has steadily declined, dropping further and further behind first-place Google and second place Yahoo.
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